Beyond the Bipolarity of the Cold War: Global History of the Non-Aligned Movement - Einzelansicht

The seminar sheds light on alternative spaces of globalization during the Cold War. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) provided a political and institutional framework in which economic, military and cultural exchange took place. The seminar focuses on the human agency, or chief protagonists, of such exchanges. Among these were communist technocrats, activists of liberation movements, students, engineers and workers in training programmes, military staff, and others. We will learn and engage in critical discussion about different kinds of cooperation between NAM member states, aimed at sparking knowledge transfer and modernization and, more generally, at unlocking alternative potentials towards development.

Natasa Miskovic, Harald Fischer-Tiné, Nada Boskovska (eds), The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War. Delhi - Bandung - Belgrade (London: Routledge, 2014).

James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Steffi Marung (eds), Alternative Globalizations. Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020).

Paul Stubbs (ed.), Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement. Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 2023)

Radina Vucetic, Paul Betts (eds), Tito in Africa. Picturing Solidarity (Belgrade: Muzej Jugoslavije, 2017),https://www.muzej-jugoslavije.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Tito-in-Africa.pdf

Requirements: Students will write an essay of 15,000 to 20,000 characters length and, in preparation, discuss the course readings and sources  in class.